Once you are more familiar with the pattern and confident in your preparation, it might as well help in enrolling to a second test series as it gives you the exposure to a wide variety of questions, concepts and difficulty level so that you are prepared for anything that comes your way on the D-Day. Again, just practicing your mocks without proper analysis won’t really bring out expected results.
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SECTION-WISE PREPARATION STRATEGY
VARC:
For someone who is starting from scratch, a regular reading habit helps immensely in this particular section. For this, I suggest reading the newspaper daily (it will also help you in your interviews) and five articles daily from websites such as – ‘Aeon essays’ and international newsletters such as ‘The Guardian’. Alternately, practising 4-5 reading comprehension passages daily (as a part of sectional tests) would also suffice.
During my preparation I read many articles suggesting the aspirants to reach a certain number of words per minute as a proper speed for reading comprehensions. However, that way many aspirants tend to lose the flow of understanding the author’s message. This is one of the prime-most reasons why many candidates lose accuracy in this section. Reading at a pace at which you are able to thoroughly comprehend the message of the author helps immensely (otherwise one may end up collecting negative marks).
In case one needs further guidance in this section, VARC1000 by Career Launcher is a good course to look at.
DILR and QA:
Solving LR based DI sets helps immensely in the DILR section. Practice enough to know which sets to choose and which ones to leave in the examination. DILR is more about accuracy than attempts!
For QA, going through the concepts and solving sectional test helps. I would recommend to note down the questions which teach you important concepts and revisit them in the future in order to get hold of the underlying concept properly.
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FINAL TIPS
- Practice enough to know which questions you may pick and which ones you may leave in the actual paper.
- Try to take up the doubts of your peers and help them solve it. It not only clears your concepts but can make you learn a new one as well!
- Additionally, reading about few frequently discussed concepts such as nihilism, liberalism, British colonialism, metaphysics, space venture, etc. might help in the VARC section to comprehend better.
- Lastly, do not get demotivated by your mock percentiles.
All the best!
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